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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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